Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 26
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February 26: Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991); Ayyám-i-Há begins (Bahá'í calendar); Saviours' Day in the Nation of Islam
- 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the King of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the rest.
- 1815 – After escaping from Elba where he had been exiled, Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) returned to France and regained power for a period known as the Hundred Days.
- 1917 – New Orleans' Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded "Livery Stable Blues", the first jazz single ever released.
- 1952 – Vincent Massey was sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
- 1995 – Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, collapsed after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million while making unauthorized speculative trades on futures contracts.